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Thursday, 6 April 2017

Following Through ..... Probably

Yesterday was a very interesting day and in the end delivered a second failed attempt to break over the daily middle band on SPX and a very bearish daily candle that may have opened up the downside. Needless to say that candle requires confirmation, and we are still waiting to see whether bears can deliver that.

I won't show it here but the rally from the lows on SPX has delivered a perfect rising wedge back to the 50% retracement and that rising wedge has broken down. That is a clear bear flag setup that should deliver at least a retest of the low at 2348.90, and likely lower. If the bear scenario is playing out then the high today at 2364.16 should hold, barring a possible retest to make the second high of a double top. On a break with confidence above the odds of the bears dropping the ball badly here will increase dramatically.

On a continuation down below 2348 there are two possible support trendlines that I'll be watching. The first is a possible triangle support trendline in the 2340 area, and the second is falling megaphone support, currently in the 2300 area. SPX 60min chart:

Resistance today on the daily chart is at the middle band on a daily closing basis. that's currently in the 2362 area and another fail there opens the daily lower band as a target. That's currently at 2336, and a decline to 2300, if we see it, would likely be fast and involve a two or three day lower band ride. SPX daily chart:

ES is holding the obvious resistance at the monthly pivot on an hourly closing basis at the highs so far today. ES Jun 60min chart:

NQ is holding the obvious resistance at the backtest of broken rising wedge support at the high so far today. NQ Jun 60min chart:

TF has rallied through the first obvious backtest of the broken H&S neckline at 1361 and may need a test of double resistance in the 1368-70 area. On a break over 1370 the odds of a resolution that would please the bears would drop considerably. TF Jun 60min chart:

I like the falling megaphone support trendline test, currently at 2300, best and would have an eye on the 38.2% fib retracement of the rising wedge from the Nov '16 low at 2280. Before the bears start gathering at a mountaintop to await the apocalypse however, I'd note that the obvious bigger picture read on this falling megaphone would be that it is a bull flag forming that, on a break up, would have a minimum target at a retest of the all time high. This decline is likely to be more of an intermission during an ongoing topping process than the main decline.

I had a suggestion from a well known annoying douchebag yesterday that I had stopped doing my posts before the market open every day because I was waiting until the direction of the market is clear every day before doing them. Frankly I doubt that would actually be much of an advantage, but the reality is that I publish futures charts on eleven instruments before the open every day and record a video running through the setups on those. I am often still adding written notes to them for an hour after the open. Those are all produced for Daily Video Service subscribers at theartofchart.net, and I'm then running a private twitter feed for those subscribers during trading hours.

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